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What Parents Need to Know About Teens

What Parents Need to Know about Teens addresses the facts and myths of teen life and teens’ relationships with parents. Each section of the booklet is devoted to a different parenting strategy.

Switchbacks

By (author) Jennifer Kramer
Categories: Ethnic studies

Switchbacks explores how the Nuxalk of Bella Coola, British Columbia, negotiate such complex questions as: Who owns culture? How should culture be transmitted to future generations? Where does selling ...

The New Buffalo

By (author) Blair Stonechild
Categories: Ethnic studies

Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain ...

La jeunesse au Canada français

Au Canada français, depuis un siècle, la jeunesse s’est donné des institutions et des organismes qui ont représenté pour elle autant de lieux de socialisation, de formation et, parfois, de contestation. ...

Good Intentions Gone Awry

By (author) Jan Hare & Jean Barman
Categories: Ethnic studies

Emma Crosby’s letters to family and friends in Ontario shed light on a critical era and bear witness to the contribution of missionary wives. They mirror the hardships and isolation she faced as well ...

Identity and Belonging

Canadian society is rapidly evolving. By 2017, persons belonging to a visible minority group will comprise 20 percent of the population. In Canada’s major cities, the proportion of persons classified ...